Ojibwa myths and tales, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter., sentence 46
The King wanted to find a good cook, and every time the King had a feast there was a different cook.
Who acts: King · What happens: want, find, have · To what, where: good cook, feast
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cook | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cook | amod |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feast | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cook | det |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cook | amod |
| 22 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | a good cook | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the King | a feast | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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